Essex HTML Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited HTML over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Romford Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	26
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	30	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.043 %	0.048 %
As % of the category below	25.86 %	21.60 %
Daily rates quoted	8	10
Average minimum daily rate	£248	£373
Average daily rate	£262	£400
% change on same period last year	-34.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£276	£428
UK excluding London average daily rate	£283	£292
% change on same period last year	-3.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.00	£29.71
Average hourly rate	£21.17	£29.71
% change on same period last year	-28.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.33	£29.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.49	£27.00
% change on same period last year	-9.28 %
Application Development Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	116	213
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.165 %	0.220 %
Daily rates quoted	41	61
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£374
Average daily rate	£316	£405
% change on same period last year	-21.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£436
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	41
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.81	£30.27
Average hourly rate	£32.43	£30.74
% change on same period last year	+5.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.04	£31.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.79	£32.03
% change on same period last year	-3.85 %
HTML East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

HTML
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing HTML across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

HTML
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HTML across the Essex region.

HTML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTML across the Essex region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

HTML
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HTML across the Essex region.

HTML
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTML across the Essex region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTML within the Essex region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Colchester	-1	7	-	-
Brentwood	-	3	-	-
Chelmsford	+3	3	£338	-5.81 %
Harlow	-2	2	-	-
Witham	-	1	£220	-

HTML East of England

HTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing HTML also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited HTML.

1 46 (64.79 %) CSS 2 43 (60.56 %) JavaScript 3 42 (59.15 %) .NET 4 31 (43.66 %) ASP.NET 5 24 (33.80 %) XML 6 20 (28.17 %) ASP 6 20 (28.17 %) C# 7 18 (25.35 %) SQL Server 8 14 (19.72 %) VB.NET 8 14 (19.72 %) Windows 9 13 (18.31 %) Flash 9 13 (18.31 %) Java 9 13 (18.31 %) AJAX 10 12 (16.90 %) Marketing 11 10 (14.08 %) Microsoft

11 10 (14.08 %) SQL 11 10 (14.08 %) Photoshop 11 10 (14.08 %) IIS 11 10 (14.08 %) Web Development 12 9 (12.68 %) Content Management 12 9 (12.68 %) JSP 12 9 (12.68 %) PHP 12 9 (12.68 %) OO 12 9 (12.68 %) Linux 13 8 (11.27 %) Publishing 13 8 (11.27 %) FatWire 13 8 (11.27 %) DHTML 13 8 (11.27 %) J2EE 13 8 (11.27 %) WebSphere 14 7 (9.859 %) ActionScript

HTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing HTML also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited HTML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 46 (64.79 %) CSS 2 42 (59.15 %) .NET 3 31 (43.66 %) ASP.NET 4 24 (33.80 %) XML 5 20 (28.17 %) ASP 6 13 (18.31 %) AJAX 7 9 (12.68 %) JSP 8 8 (11.27 %) J2EE 8 8 (11.27 %) WebSphere 9 7 (9.859 %) XHTML 10 6 (8.451 %) Struts 11 4 (5.634 %) WebServices 12 3 (4.225 %) XSLT 12 3 (4.225 %) LAMP 13 2 (2.817 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 2 (2.817 %) .NET Framework 14 1 (1.408 %) CakePHP 14 1 (1.408 %) Servlets 14 1 (1.408 %) SOAP 14 1 (1.408 %) MVC	Application Platforms 1 10 (14.08 %) IIS 2 6 (8.451 %) CMS 3 3 (4.225 %) SharePoint 3 3 (4.225 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (4.225 %) ColdFusion 4 2 (2.817 %) Content Management Server 4 2 (2.817 %) SharePoint Portal Server 5 1 (1.408 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 1 (1.408 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 10 (14.08 %) Photoshop 2 6 (8.451 %) MS Office 3 4 (5.634 %) MS Excel 4 3 (4.225 %) ImageReady 4 3 (4.225 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 5 (7.042 %) Internet 2 4 (5.634 %) Firewall 2 4 (5.634 %) DHCP 2 4 (5.634 %) DNS 3 1 (1.408 %) SSL 3 1 (1.408 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (25.35 %) SQL Server 2 6 (8.451 %) MySQL 3 5 (7.042 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (4.225 %) MS Access 5 2 (2.817 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (1.408 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 13 (18.31 %) Flash 2 6 (8.451 %) Ant 3 4 (5.634 %) Dreamweaver 4 3 (4.225 %) WinRunner 4 3 (4.225 %) TestDirector 4 3 (4.225 %) QuickTest Pro 4 3 (4.225 %) LoadRunner 4 3 (4.225 %) JMeter 4 3 (4.225 %) Selenium 4 3 (4.225 %) FitNesse 5 1 (1.408 %) Subversion
General 1 12 (16.90 %) Marketing 2 8 (11.27 %) Publishing 3 6 (8.451 %) Finance 4 3 (4.225 %) Multimedia 5 2 (2.817 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (1.408 %) Pensions 6 1 (1.408 %) Interactive Media 6 1 (1.408 %) FMCG 6 1 (1.408 %) Advertising 6 1 (1.408 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 48 (67.61 %) Developer 2 23 (32.39 %) Web Developer 3 19 (26.76 %) .NET Developer 4 13 (18.31 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 12 (16.90 %) VB.NET Developer 6 10 (14.08 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 9 (12.68 %) .NET Web Developer 8 6 (8.451 %) PHP Developer 8 6 (8.451 %) Analyst 9 4 (5.634 %) Trainer 9 4 (5.634 %) Server Engineer 9 4 (5.634 %) C# Developer 9 4 (5.634 %) PHP Web Developer 9 4 (5.634 %) Digital Producer 10 3 (4.225 %) Junior 10 3 (4.225 %) Business Analyst 10 3 (4.225 %) Tester 10 3 (4.225 %) Software Developer 11 2 (2.817 %) Applications Developer 11 2 (2.817 %) Systems Tester
Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.817 %) NHS 2 1 (1.408 %) W3C 2 1 (1.408 %) Mainframe 2 1 (1.408 %) NPfIT 2 1 (1.408 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.408 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 14 (19.72 %) Windows 2 9 (12.68 %) Linux 3 7 (9.859 %) UNIX 4 6 (8.451 %) Windows Server 2003 5 3 (4.225 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (4.225 %) Windows XP 5 3 (4.225 %) NetWare 6 2 (2.817 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (14.08 %) Web Development 2 9 (12.68 %) Content Management 2 9 (12.68 %) OO 3 5 (7.042 %) Web Design 4 4 (5.634 %) UML 4 4 (5.634 %) Performance Management 5 3 (4.225 %) Web Testing 5 3 (4.225 %) System Testing 5 3 (4.225 %) Project Management 5 3 (4.225 %) Scrum 5 3 (4.225 %) Extreme Programming 5 3 (4.225 %) Agile Software Development 5 3 (4.225 %) Internet Marketing 5 3 (4.225 %) Automated Testing 6 2 (2.817 %) Data Analysis 6 2 (2.817 %) SEO 7 1 (1.408 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (1.408 %) E-Commerce 7 1 (1.408 %) Performance Testing 7 1 (1.408 %) Document Management	Programming Languages 1 43 (60.56 %) JavaScript 2 20 (28.17 %) C# 3 14 (19.72 %) VB.NET 4 13 (18.31 %) Java 5 10 (14.08 %) SQL 6 9 (12.68 %) PHP 7 8 (11.27 %) DHTML 8 7 (9.859 %) Perl 8 7 (9.859 %) ActionScript 9 5 (7.042 %) VB 10 2 (2.817 %) VBScript 11 1 (1.408 %) PL/SQL 11 1 (1.408 %) Python 11 1 (1.408 %) Shell Script 11 1 (1.408 %) PHP5 11 1 (1.408 %) PHP4
Qualifications 1 3 (4.225 %) Degree 2 1 (1.408 %) MCP 2 1 (1.408 %) MCSE 2 1 (1.408 %) MCSA 2 1 (1.408 %) CCA 2 1 (1.408 %) Citrix Certification 2 1 (1.408 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (5.634 %) QA
System Software 1 5 (7.042 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 10 (14.08 %) Microsoft 2 8 (11.27 %) FatWire 3 4 (5.634 %) Adobe 4 3 (4.225 %) Novell 5 2 (2.817 %) Oracle 6 1 (1.408 %) Cognos 6 1 (1.408 %) Citrix 6 1 (1.408 %) Quark